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Two Songs About Football

by Those Unfortunates

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    The second of our two concept singles, this limited edition cassette comes with an accompanying booklet, plus a very limited edition Hornsey Automatic FC badge. 60 copies only!
    Plus we're throwing in a download code for "Live at the Betsey Trotwood", a recording of our single launch gig. Eighteen tracks, including a game of Pass the Parcel. Never mind the quality, feel the width!

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Welcome to Woodberry Down, Two Songs About Football, Two songs about buses, Harvest Song, In Lavender and other stories, Nothing Isn't Beautiful, Smiley, The Servant, and 7 more. , and , .

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Two Songs About Football is a concept single; both songs are about football. The band have timed its release to ensure it is the number one chart single on FA Cup Final weekend; the cassette release is accompanied by a 12-page fanzine and will be launched with a gig at the Betsey Trotwood pub on May 11.

Lead track Hornsey Automatic FC was inspired by an imaginary team bass player Seb Brennan created with his friend, Rory Mackie in a north London pub some years ago. Employing every trick in the football singalong songbook, the song introduces the world to the Hornsey Automatic Dairy works team, where “great value and action is almost always guaranteed,” and stars like part-time milkman and star centre forward Elwin McSheffery are on the lips of every supporter.

King of the Lane is a shambling indie earworm which owes a debt to author Anthony Clavane’s book, Does Your Rabbi Know You’re Here?, the story of the Jewish diaspora’s attempts to use the beautiful game to integrate into British society. The author has kindly contributed an extract from him book to the accompanying fanzine and praised the song as sounding “Like a Jewish Half Man, Half Biscuit.”

Two Songs About Football was recorded live at NWfA studios in Sussex in late 2017, with producer/engineer, Thomas Hatfield. It follows on from previous a first concept single, Two Songs About Buses, which received repeat plays on BBC 6Music, and their acclaimed debut album Nothing Isn’t Beautiful.

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released May 11, 2018

Recorded by Thomas Hatfield at Nice Weather for Airstrikes Studios, somewhere in Southern England.

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Those Unfortunates London, UK

Those Unfortunates are a London, UK based four piece.
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